List of scientific journals - Definition

Below follows a List of scientific journals. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past. The list given here is far from comprehensive.

Note: there are many good science magazines that are not scientific journals, including New Scientist and Scientific American. They are not listed here.

General science

• Nature (journal home) (http://www.nature.com/nature/)
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (journal home) (http://www.pnas.org)
• Science (journal home) (http://www.sciencemag.org/)

Agriculture

• Applied Engineering in Agriculture
• Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
• Transactions of the ASAE

Astronomy

• Astronomical Journal (journal home) (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJ/)
• Astronomy & Astrophysics (journal home) (http://www.edpsciences.org/journal/index.cfm?edpsname=aa)
• Astrophysical Journal (journal home) (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/)
• Icarus (journal home) (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00191035)
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (journal home) (http://www.publish.csiro.au/?nid=138)
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (journal home) (http://pasj.asj.or.jp/)
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of Pacific (journal home) (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/PASP/journal/)

Biology

• American Naturalist (journal home) (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AN/)
• Animal Behaviour
• Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
• Behaviour
• Canadian Journal of Zoology
• Cell (journal home) (http://www.cell.com/)
• Ecology
• Evolution (journal home) (http://evol.allenpress.com/)
• Genetics (journal home) (http://www.genetics.org/)
• Journal of Animal Ecology
• Journal of Evolutionary Biology (journal home) (http://www.eseb.org/jeb.htm)
• Journal of Mammalogy
• Journal of Theoretical Biology (journal home) (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/00225193)
• Journal of Zoology
• Oikos
• Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B
• PLoS Biology (journal home) (http://www.plosbiology.org)

Chemistry

• Chemical Communications
• Dalton Transactions (journal home) (http://www.rsc.org/is/journals/current/dalton/dappub.htm)
• Faraday Discussions
• Inorganic and Nuclear Chemustry Letters
• Journal of Chemical Education (journal home) (http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/)
• Journal of Chemical Research
• Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry
• Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
• Journal of Materials Chemistry
• Journal of the American Chemical Society
• Journal of the Chemical Society
• Perkin Transactions I (journal home) (http://www.rsc.org/is/journals/current/perkin1/p1ppub.htm)
• Polyhedron (journal home) (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/218/description#description)

Climatology

Note: many of the highest-impact publications in climatology would appear in Nature or Science.

• Climate dynamics
• Geophysical research letters (journal home (http://www.agu.org/journals/gl/))
• Journal of climate
• Journal of geophysical research
• Quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society (journal home (http://www.royal-met-soc.org.uk/qjrms.html))
• Tellus (journal home (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0280-6495))

Computer Science and Engineering

• Communications of the ACM
• IEEE Transactions on Aerospace & Electronic Systems (journal home (http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/mainsite/menuitem.818c0c39e85ef176fb2275875bac26c8/indeAax.jsp?&pName=corp_level1&path=pubs/transactions&file=aes.xml&xsl=generic.xsl))
• IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (journal home (http://control.bu.edu/ieee/))
• IEEE Transactions on Communications (journal home (http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/jrnal/transcom/home.html))
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (journal home (http://ieee-cis.org/pubs/tnn/))
• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (journal home (http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/sps/tsp/))

Mathematics

• Acta Mathematica
• Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum (Szeged)
• Advances in Applied Mathematics
• Advances in Mathematics
• American Journal of Mathematics
• American Mathematical Monthly
• Annals of Mathematics
• Australian Mathematical Society Journal
• Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
• Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
• Canadian Bulletin of Mathematics
• Canadian Journal of Mathematics
• Indiana University Mathematics Journal
• Integral Equations and Operator Theory
• International Journal of Mathematics
• Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik - the oldest surviving mathematical periodical
• Journal of the American Mathematical Society
• Journal of Functional Analysis
• Journal of Geometry
• Journal of the London Mathematical Society
• Journal of Number Theory
• Journal of Operator Theory
• Notices of the American Mathematical Society
• Pacific Journal of Mathematics
• Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
• Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics
• Mathematics of Computation
• Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
• Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Medicine

• Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
• New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)

Physics

• Physical Review A (journal home) (http://pra.aps.org/)
• Physical Review B (journal home) (http://prb.aps.org/)
• Physical Review C (journal home) (http://prc.aps.org/)
• Physical Review D (journal home) (http://prd.aps.org/)
• Physical Review E (journal home) (http://pre.aps.org/)
• Physical Review Letters (journal home) (http://prl.aps.org/)

Misc.

• First Monday (http://www.firstmonday.dk/) (Covers all internet related topics)

External Links

• IEEE Transactions Journals and Letters Listings (http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/mainsite/menuitem.818c0c39e85ef176fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=corp_level1&path=pubs/transactions&file=index.xml&xsl=generic.xsl)